A #Saturn IB #rocket on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex.
The #SaturnIB helped test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit.
The rocket also carried the Apollo spacecraft to the Skylab space station and to meet a Soviet Soyuz for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
The eight red nozzles are the 8 H-1 #engines that powered the rocket.

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This is Launch Complex 34 at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station.
During a test of the #Apollo command and service modules and a Saturn I rocket in preparation for the Apollo 1 mission, a small spark from an unknown origin, combined with pure oxygen environment, allowed a fire to break out and essentially used all the oxygen in the combustion reaction, killing mission commander Gus Grissom, senior pilot Ed White, and pilot Roger Chaffee nearly instantly.
LC-34 was abandoned-in-place after the last Saturn launch was decommissioned.
It remains as a #memorial.

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